by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
Restricting public freedoms and forcing unpopular mandates onto populations around the world during the Covid pandemic were a failure and were based on “weak evidence,” an official government report has revealed.
The UK’s Health Security Agency (HSA) recently published a report detailing the results of a lengthy examination into the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in preventing or slowing Covid infections in the country.
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The UK, like many other Western nations, imposed lockdowns, travel restrictions, mask mandates, and social distancing during the pandemic.
The goal of the UK’s HSA was to use primary studies on NPIs within the community to see how successful or unsuccessful they were at reducing the spread of the virus.
“The purpose of this rapid mapping review was to identify and categorize primary studies that reported on the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented in community settings to reduce the transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK,” the report notes.
“Streamlined systematic methods were used, including literature searches (using sources such as Medline, Embase, and medRxiv) and use of systematic reviews as sources to identify relevant primary studies.”
They found that the justifications for Covid interventions were based on exceptionally weak evidence.
In fact, roughly 67 percent of the identified evidence was based on modeling and was determined to be essentially useless.
“Two-thirds of the evidence identified was based on modeling studies (100 out of 151 studies),” the report explains.
“There was a lack of experimental studies (2 out of 151 studies) and individual-level observational studies (22 out of 151 studies).
“Apart from test and release strategies for which 2 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were identified, the body of evidence available on the effectiveness of NPIs in the UK provides weak evidence in terms of study design, as it is mainly based on modeling studies, ecological studies, mixed-methods studies, and qualitative studies.
“This is a key learning point for future pandemic preparedness: there is a need to strengthen the evaluation of interventions and build this into the design and implementation of public health interventions and government policies from the start of any future pandemic or other public health emergency.”
Modeling, as we know, is functionally useless.
